Sunday, January 13, 2008
Wandering The Net
Have you ever gone wandering the net? Sure you have. How many times have you gone on the internet to check the news, the weather or your email, and clicked on this interesting link, which leads to another link of interest and so on? First thing you know an hour has passed and you still haven't checked your email or the weather and news.
So back you go to check your email, and someone sends you a link or you find one in a newsletter you subscribe to, and the cycle starts all over again.
There is another scenario where you go immediately to the computer to find out some information on a task you are doing or are considering doing. First thing you know an hour has past and you know you came to the computer to look up something in particular, but what the heck was it?
So you leave the computer because you have to get something productive done during this day. You get involved, and then it hits you, "oh now I remember what I was going to look up on the net," and you head back to the computer and the cycle starts all over again.
Is a new form of time management required? It is even worse when the computer is on all the time and close at hand, volume cranked up so you can hear the instant message call.
Wandering The Net - the latest way to absorb information you probably don't even need.
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Thursday, October 04, 2007
Appointment 8 - 5
"A technician will be there on such and such a date between eight and five." I like the way some companies schedule technical appointments.
Soon our abode will have both cable and dsl internet capability. That should make for interesting comparisons in the future. (We will call it A & E, with no reflection on the television network that uses the same letters.) That is if we ever get the dsl portion hooked up. This will be twice the dsl tech had to visit to get it working. Twice that I have heard the above leading statement.
You would think that companies that are dealing in leading edge technologies could schedule appointments a little more accurately than that. Most often these visits last less than an hour. I would say scheduling an appointment within a two hour time frame should be possible. In our case it doesn't matter because there is always someone home.
Consider a household where both parties are working. That means someone would have to stay home for an entire day to accommodate their 8 - 5 appointment. How acceptable is that? Well it seems everyone must be accepting it, because they are doing it. In fairness, they are not the only ones, as some delivery companies use the same procedure.
So we have high speed internet, but low speed service appointments. Some things may never keep up.
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Soon our abode will have both cable and dsl internet capability. That should make for interesting comparisons in the future. (We will call it A & E, with no reflection on the television network that uses the same letters.) That is if we ever get the dsl portion hooked up. This will be twice the dsl tech had to visit to get it working. Twice that I have heard the above leading statement.
You would think that companies that are dealing in leading edge technologies could schedule appointments a little more accurately than that. Most often these visits last less than an hour. I would say scheduling an appointment within a two hour time frame should be possible. In our case it doesn't matter because there is always someone home.
Consider a household where both parties are working. That means someone would have to stay home for an entire day to accommodate their 8 - 5 appointment. How acceptable is that? Well it seems everyone must be accepting it, because they are doing it. In fairness, they are not the only ones, as some delivery companies use the same procedure.
So we have high speed internet, but low speed service appointments. Some things may never keep up.
-=One Day At A Time=-
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Labels: appointment, cable, dsl, internet
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